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We are expanding our Engineering team to India and building a stellar and diverse team composed of owners. We are looking for a backend engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence. As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building out the service layer that powers our frontend applications. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle and software design principles. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for a huge impact at a small start-up with immense growth potential.
What you will do?
Create technical plans of projects assigned to you.
Come up with well-structured solutions to ambiguous problems and implement them.
Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable backend code.
Provide technical direction on our various products and upcoming projects.
Champion reliability and quality by using best practices in software engineering and modular design.
Ensure all components are scalable, maintainable, and have in-built metrics instrumentation and monitoring
Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers. Put the customer first and have quality in mind.
Own the full release cycle from development to deployment.
What you will need?
3+ Years of experience as a software engineer working on backend applications.
Advanced knowledge of Python (preferably, the Django framework) and relational databases.
Experience with agile, test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing.
Experience with building, modifying, and extending API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) for data retrieval and persistence.
Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements collection, design, implementation, testing, and operational support.
Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing skills.
Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
Hustle. Thrives in an evolving, fast-paced, ambiguous work environment.
Bonus if you have
Experience working in the eCommerce domain.
Experience with AWS technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, etc.

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Key Responsibilities:
1. Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js or Python, or Java.
2. Build and implement scalable and robust microservices and integrate API gateways.
3. Develop and optimize NoSQL database structures and queries (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB).
4. Implement real-time data pipelines using Kafka.
5. Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure seamless integration of backend services.
6. Write clean, reusable, and efficient code following best practices, including design patterns.
7. Troubleshoot, debug, and enhance existing systems for improved performance.
Mandatory Skills:
1. Proficiency in at least one backend technology: Node.js or Python, or Java.
2. Strong experience in:
i. Microservices architecture,
ii. API gateways,
iii. NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB),
iv. Kafka
v. Data structures (e.g., arrays, linked lists, trees).
3. Frameworks:
i. If Java : Spring framework for backend development.
ii. If Python: FastAPI/Django frameworks for AI applications.
iii. If Node: Express.js for Node.js development.
Good to Have Skills:
1. Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
2. Familiarity with in-memory databases like Redis or Memcached.
3. Frontend skills: Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or frameworks like React.js.



Job Description :
-At least 2+ years of experience in core python development
-Develop reusable , testable and scalable code
-Good exposure to continuous integration tools like Jenkins
-Experience working with version controls like Git.
-Knowledge of popular python libraries and framework.
-Good to have aerospace domain knowledge
- Experience in OOPs /functional coding integrating applications
-Collaborate with other developers and team members to design and implement software solutions


Job Description:
§ Understanding client requirements & functional specifications.
§ Developing and maintaining dynamic websites and web applications.
§ Ensuring fool proof performance of the deliverable.
§ Coordinating with co-developers and other related departments.
§ Sending regular updated about the project status
Desired Candidate Profile:
· Proficient knowledge of a back-end programming language - one or more from Python, JavaScript, NodeJS
· Proficient knowledge of back-end server frameworks - Flask
· Proficient knowledge in handling any from JSON, XML & YAML
· Databases: MongoDB
· Proficient In configuring backend in Nginx Server
· Experience in building the API services from scratch - Project structuring, setting up environment objects, build reusable components, etc,
· IDE: Visual Studio Code, PyCharm Notepad++.
· Should have excellent written & oral communication skills (English)
· Must have the capacity to work independently and also as a part of a team



1. As a founding backend engineer, design, build and evolve the backend architecture
of our product to support customer-facing and internal features to serve 1000s of
customers and millions of data requests per hour
2. You will engage in technical decisions from choosing the optimal database design to
best-practice infrastructure decisions
3. You will proactively incorporate best practices for security, analytics, and monitoring
4. You will contribute to DevOps by building procedures for deployment,
troubleshooting, and maintenance
5. You will work directly with the CTO to set the tone for the engineering culture
This role is tailor-made for you if
1. You have 4+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying production-level
large-scale web applications
2. You have hands-on experience with Node JS and other programming languages
(Ruby, Go, Python)
3. You have worked previously on PostgreSQL, SQL, and Message Queue 4. Practical
knowledge and experience in deploying and managing big data applications on a cloud
platform like AWS or Google Cloud.
5. You are comfortable conducting code reviews and giving feedback to ensure high
standards of code maintainability and extensibility.
6. You are energized by ambiguity and can create structure in a dynamic, fast-paced
environment
7. You’ve high confidence, low ego, and are generally a good human being :)
You earn brownie points if
1. You love Slack (we are a Slack first company)
2. You have been part of an early/mid-stage start-up before
3. You love TechCrunch. We are obsessed with reading and talking about startups
4. You have created some amazing open-source projects


Turtlemint is one of India's largest InsureTech companies. Launched in 2015, Turtlemint works on educating customers and helping them research across all segments of insurance. It also has its own network of advisors who are empowered with all necessary training, tools and license to sell insurance and other financial products like Mutual Funds, Loans and e-Gold. It has a wide multi-brand distribution network through its multi-language mobile application - MintPro
With an advisor network of over 100,000 that caters to 1.5mn+ customers across 800 cities in India, Turtlemint today has an overwhelming majority of Indian insurance companies as its partners. With a goal to improve the skill and knowledge of the Insurance advisor community, it has invested in technology offerings, online trainings and shareable content. The Mumbai-based Startup has been funded by Sequoia Capital, Nexus Venture Partners and Blume Ventures.
Explore more about us on – www.turtlemintmoney.com and www.turtlemint.com &
In the News : https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/india-insurance-startup-turtlemint-raises-30-million/
https://yourstory.com/2020/11/funding-alert-turtlemint-ggv-capital
Responsibilities:
• Design, implement, and support scalable and functionally resilient public REST APIs
• Support and help cultivate product mindset culture, by working directly with - business and product management to understand customer needs, perform customer requirement analysis, and collaborate on roadmap planning and its execution
• Advocate for best practice development methodologies across the entire team and help iterate on software development processes and standards
• Contribute to the development of test automation
• Demonstrate flexibility and leadership in a fast paced startup environment while remaining focused on the responsibility of creating sustainable and scalable platform code base
Experience and Skill required:
• Experience designing, developing, delivering, and scaling modern web applications
• Strong experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Python, Java, C/C++, C#
• Demonstrated expertise working with at least one modern enterprise application frameworks like Spring Boot, Play Framework, Django
• Demonstrated expertise in building scalable distributed applications in microservices architecture
• Expert knowledge of best practice software engineering methodologies and coding standards
• Strong and proven advocacy for Test Driven Development is preferred
• Experience with SQL (mySQL, Postgres, etc) and NoSQL (MongoDb, DynamoDB, Aerospike or Redis)
• Production experience in running cloud based enterprise-grade systems at scale
• Natural ability to process requirements, figure out multiple execution options, their complexity, and estimate the scope of work required to get tasks done
• DevOps experience
• Cloud experience (AWS required, Google Cloud Platform bonus)
Education:
Bachelors in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
Finally, and most importantly, drive, energy, and motivation to succeed with delivering great customer experiences
Experience: 4-8 years
What you get:
- To work in an early stage consumer internet start-up in disruptive space - To directly work with founding team of graduates from IIT/ IIM and experience at top internet brands like Yahoo/ eBay - Silicon Valley like culture - Competitive salary
Location: Mumbai/Pune
Position: Senior Java Developer / Tech Lead
Work Location: Bangalore; India
Type of Employment: Full-time, Permanent
Experience: 6 to 10 years of Experience
- Proficient in Java/J2EE , core java, full stack development experience ( Database to UX)
- Must be proficient with integration with third-party applications within the enterprise and outside the organizations (API)
- Must be good in writing highly optimized code.
- Must be good at abstracting solutions - reduce time and cost to build
- Experience with Workflow Engines like Activiti will be an advantage
- Good understanding of native Android code/interface with Android apps, if preferable
- Must be an expert in managing data at the application database level - Transaction and Reporting database design
- Must be good in coding & product development
- Experienced with monitoring and observability
- Experienced with production support and debugging (heap dumps, thread dumps etc)
- Experience in Logistics domain is desirable
- Prior startup experience is preferred
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Computer Science / BE
- Ability to handle the team of 7 to 8 members and giving guidance to the team
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to respect deadlines and will to perform in an accelerated learning environment.
Key Skills: Java, J2EE, JSP, Spring, Angular, Apache, MySQL, SQL Queries,LinuxEnviroment, HTML, JQuery, Java Script, Version Control, .Net, Activiti, IBatis, Maven – Build, Git Hub, J Bos, CSS, HTML 5, JIRA, Selenium,AWS – Server Handling, Android, React JS
Note: Hiring from logistics and Ecommerce company only and 30-45 days’ notice is ok and can also buy back notice if required.






